Refrigerator



K. SPENCER.

Refrigerator;

Patented Sept. 25; 1860..

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KIRBY SPENCER, OF MINNEAPOLlS, MlNNESO'lL-r REFRIGERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 30, 164, dated September 25, 1860.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KIRBY SPENCER, of Minneapolis, in the county ofHennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and ImprovedArrangement of Devices for Refrigerators for the Preservation of Ediblesand Fluids; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in placing a preservatory, havingone or more tight, dark, dry ventilating apartments, within arefrigerating chamber, and the edibles and fluids to be preserved to beplaced in the apartments of the said preservatory.

Figures 1, 2 and 3, are perspective views. Fig. 4: is a sectional viewof the end of the refrigerator.

The method of constructing my invention is as follows: A casement, B,Fig. 2, is formed, having a bottom A, ends B, C, back D, and a front E,F, with an aperture G, H, in said front. The superior surface of thebottom A, is inclined to the point I, and shown at A, Fig. L. Sills a,Fig. 2, of the thickness of the inferior portion of the front E, F, arefastened to the superior surface of the bottom A. Spaces 6, Fig. 2, andZ), Fig. t, between the surface of the bottom and the sills, are formedby cutting away a portion of the sills, at the points Z), I). Anaperture 1, in the end is cut, and a pipe or faucet J is attached tosaid aperture. A top, consisting of two parts, 0, and (Z, is applied tothe casement B. The top 0, is a movable cover or lid.

A preservatory C, being of less length, height and width than thecasement B, is formed by having a bottom A, a back D, with ends B, C, atop 6, and a front E F, with one or more apartments f, and are formed bypartitions 2, 2. Ventilating apertures, g, are cut in, and near thefront edge of the top of the preservatory and are closed by slidingcovers, j. Apertures h, are cut in the apartments f, having faucetsattached. Shelves 2', are formed in the apartments f, the front edges ofwhich lie in a vertical line drawn from the posterior edges of theapertures g. Doors 76, are formed in the front E, F, of thepreservatory. A portion a of the inferior edge of the superior side ofthe aperture H, G, is cut away of a length less than the preservatory C.

The preservatory C, is placed in the casement B, its front E, F, lyingin and filling the aperture H, I G. An aperture, 0, is formed by the top0, of the preservatory, O, and the section of the superior edge of thefront E, F, in the said aperture, the covers j, traverse. A ventilatingflue K, is formed of the length of the preservatory C, by the top (Z,the top 6, the front E, F, and a strip P of the height, of the width ofthe superior portion la, 7a, of the front E, F, and of a length of thepreservatory C is applied to the inferior posterior edges of the top (Z,which is of a width of a line drawn from the posterior edges of theapertures g, to the front E, F. The ends of the flue are closed bystrips fastened to the strip P, and the top (Z. An open pipe, at itsends, L, having a ventilating aperture 2), is attached to the top (Z,over an aperture, cut through the said top (Z, at the point 0.

A frigerific chamber 00, is formed by the walls of the preservatory C,and the walls of the casement B. The casement B, and the preservatory C,may be made of any suitable substance. Articles, to be preserved, areplaced in the apartments f. The apertures h, open to the frigerificchamber 00, and may be closed. The ventilation of the apartments iseffected by the apertures g, the flue K, and the pipe L. F rigerificsubstances are contained in the frigerific chamber 00, and water, orother substances, may be drawn at the aperture 1.

I have thus described the general character of my invention and themanner of constructing and using the same.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The apartments f, in combination with the ventilating apertures g, theaperture 00, the

sliding covers j, the ventilating flue K, the I signed my name beforetwo subscribing Witpipe L, the refrigerating chamber x, the apertures7L, and the aperture I, constructed substantially in the mannerspecified, and 5 operating together for the purposes above Witnesses:

described. E. M. WILSON,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto J. N. THOMPSON.

nesses this 25th day of J une, A. D. 1860.

KIRBY SPENCER.

